Rivera will take the stage at 7 p.m.
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Tickets are $10 per person. Current Missouri State-West Plains students can attend free with their BearPass ID.
To purchase tickets, contact the civic center at 417-256-8087 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, or visit wp.missouristate.edu/theater and click on the “Erik Rivera, Comedian” link under “Upcoming Events.”
The performance is being sponsored by the Missouri State University-West Plains University/Community Programs (U/CP) Department.
U/CP officials remind that masks will be required, and social distancing protocols will be followed during the performance.
Rivera keeps making his mark on the stand-up comedy scene. At his recent appearance at the prestigious Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal, he was hand selected to perform for Kevin Hart’s Laugh Out Loud Network.
As do a whole lot of actual swear words.
When Netflix dropped the first (obviously) sweary trailer for
History of Swear Words late last year
, it seemed to be an appropriate way to usher in 2021 with a different energy. Visually appealing and hosted by king of comic gravitas Nicolas Cage,
HOSW promised audiences the kind of release only a well-placed expletive can offer.
Following its premiere earlier this month, the six-episode docu-series tries its best to deliver that promise. Sitting by a (fake) fireplace in a (fake) drawing room set, Cage delves into the history of F k , Sh t , Bitch , D k , Pu y and Damn (inconsistent asterisks courtesy of Netflix) with etymologists and comedians.
Nicolas Cage in ‘History of Swear Words’
This romp through the history of swearing is mainly limited to the United States and could have done with a bit more bite and depth
The most difficult thing about writing this review was how to refer to the six unprintable words that actor Nicolas Cage dissects through the course of this documentary series. The series showed the way with “minced oaths,” which is using a proxy for the curse word. So the series looks at fudge, shoot, the nickname for Richard, lady dog, cat and darn managed who hoo!
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Posted on Sunday, January 3rd, 2021 by Ethan Anderton
If you’re looking to kick off 2021 by enriching your mind while also being a little indecent, then a new documentary series from Netflix about the origins of obscenities will be right up your alley.
Nicolas Cage hosts
History of Swear Words, a six-episode series that dives into the history of some of the nastier words in the English language. There’s already a trailer out there painting a broad picture of what this series will entail, but a new
History of Swear Words clip focuses in on a single word and how some of the show’s guest commentators feel about it.
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History of Swear Words
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From Netflix: An education in expletives: the history lesson you didn’t know you needed. History of Swear Words, hosted by Nicolas Cage, is a loud and proudly profane series that explores the origins, pop culture-usage, science and cultural impact of curse words. Through interviews with experts in etymology, pop culture, historians and entertainers, the six-episode series dives into the origins of “F k”, “Sh t”, “B tch”, “D k”, “Pu y”, and “Damn”.